Guide part 68

Sonic & the Black Knight Walkthrough

As a 'Legacy' stage, this challenge is another of the short and simple ones that are so infrequent at this stage in the game.

From the start, run forward and be ready to jump a line of spike traps along the ground. After that, weave left and right to collect rings but be careful; there are spiked balls that soon will be lying across the path. It's easy to get a lot of speed going, then to run directly into them because you were moving so quickly.

Robots are your ticket to high elevation.

Spring to higher ground.

After avoiding the balls with jumps or quick steps to the side, there's another spike strip to leap over. As you do, you should be able to target the robots ahead and press the 'A' button repeatedly to use homing attacks that bounce you from one to the next and allow you to quickly gain elevation. You will now be able to hit a spring that will then send you flying against several bumpers. As you reach the end of those, you'll collect a bunch of rings before dropping to the boardwalk below. You've avoided some nasty spikes in the process.

Continue up the boardwalk and you'll come to some bumpers at the base of a wall. Bounce from them and up to some more bumpers, collecting more rings along the way. Now you'll be running along a longer stretch of boardwalk. Ahead, there's another spike trap to avoid, so make sure that you do or you'll lose a bunch of rings.

The weights are easy to dodge, but there are a lot of them.

Sticking to the boardwalk can slow you down a bit.

Past the spike strip, you'll find yourself rocketing forward again. Here there's a chance to collect more rings, but you still need to be on your guard. Ahead, there will be two rows of spikes with a large ring between them that's worth 20 smaller ones. Carefully jump between the spike traps to grab that, but otherwise try to maintain good forward momentum. You'll race down a hill and toward the mouth of a cave.

It's important to be careful now, as you're moving into territory where it's easy to lose your rings. A spike strip is laid across the floor along the cave's entrance and the spikes will protrude periodically, perhaps poking you if your timing wasn't proper. That's followed quickly by the circular, spiked weights that like to fall and smash hedgehogs. You need to weave between them if you want to keep up your speed (sometimes a good run will let you avoid everything, but it's risky) and be ready to jump as you reach the cave's exit, since there are more robots waiting for you as you enter the final boardwalk stretch.

A note about this: if you don't happen to time things properly here, it's very easy to hit one of several spike strips laid across the ground. You can avoid them if you're springing from rocket to rocket in the air above, but on the ground you'll be slowed tremendously because it's difficult to see the traps unless you're paying close attention... something that's difficult to do at high speeds. When you reach the end of the boardwalk, either by coming down from an excursion in the air above or by braving the spike hazards on the ground, a final bumper will take you to the huge golden ring at the end of the stage.